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Rent Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: May 1992
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 352
Synopsis
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion. Based on historical events, it traces the fortunes of a fourteen-year-old boy who stumbles into a nightmarish world along the Texas-Mexico border.
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Reviews
This book describes such incarnate evil, that there was a part that I had to stop reading at night and finish in the morning. Be prepared! I swore off Cormac McCarthy after reading this because I was depressed for about a week. I am too addicted to keep to my promise not to read any more of his books, sadly Fascinating and scary, and just plain a good read!
Blood Meridian reminds me of the advice the Man gives his Son in The Road: be careful what you put in your head. This novel is truly hard to read because of the explicit treatment of violence and downright cruelty of the characters. And though it is not violence for violence's sake, I'm not sure I understood this novel as well as I have McCarthy's others. For one thing, it wanders the landscape even more than most of his work, landscapes that mirror the events of the novel. Second, McCarthy simply will not allow you to neatly stereotype the characters. One moment, you care about their lives and stories, and the next moment, the characters steal your breath with the evil they are capable of. And, third, it's evil wholesale everyone is a victim and everyone is a perpatrator. Overall, I enjoyed the book, but some of the images I would not care to have in my head.